yukichigai @ yukichigai @kbin.social

Modder, programmer, and all around tinkerer. Yes, I’m that New Vegas and De

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I still act respectful in churches and other "sacred" places, not out of any fear of the Magic Sky Wizard, but simply because other people respect them and it seems like a useful thing to encourage, even if I don't agree with the underlying reasoning. Having a place which most of society agrees should be a quiet, comforting sanctuary is not the worst thing at all, even if the comfort is derived from extreme wishful thinking.

Also, Christmas. Christmas music is great. A Charlie Brown Christmas is one of the best holiday albums ever, though we always skip "Hark the Herald Angel Sings" 'cause it's such a tonal shift compared to the rest of the album.

Okay, so even assuming that's the case, "stopping distribution" is different than "we're gonna charge you for installs of copies you've already sold". Still not seeing how that's legal.

What even the fuck is this timeline?

I know this doesn’t help for existing games but hopefully they can at least get Unity not to make these fees retroactive, seems legally questionable to me as a layman at least.

I've yet to see a coherent explanation for how Unity could even legally do that. As far as I know their previous Terms of Service did not include any mention of "also we can tack on additional fees whenever we want even for products that have already been developed" or "by agreeing to this version of the Terms of Service you permanently agree to any future versions of the Terms of Service", and even if it did I highly doubt that would be enforceable. They're trying to retroactively apply a fee structure that wasn't agreed to.

It's also telling that (according to Ars Technica) they specifically claim that this new fee structure isn't "royalties" and thus not subject to any protections afforded to royalty agreements. Methinks the lady doth protest too much and all that.

Tom Skerritt!

I am literally only on Twitter for the porn at this point. If I want actually intelligent microblogging I just peruse Mastodon via my Kbin account.

I stopped using it for about 5 years because there was this truly cursed period where it wouldn't remember manual connections if you weren't logged in and wouldn't work without an active internet connection if you were logged in. Even after they fixed both of those there was still a 50/50 shot it would treat logged-in local devices as remote devices and stream out via your internet connection and then back in to the client device. In fact I still don't log my devices in if I don't have to.

This is why they can pry my ability to work from home from my cold, dead hands.

Here's a non-watermarked version

EDIT: Well it shows up on Kbin anyway. Argh, Fediverse be weird. Here's a link.

Funnily enough I was toying with the idea of making a Gopher based Lemmy frontend for the lulz. Maybe Gemini then?

How about last week?

Why yes this comic made me think of our users, why do you ask?

The fact that usenet has still hung on all this time as more than just a place for people to share pirated files is honestly impressive, and also is a pretty decent endorsement. Unfortunately it has a fair number of weaknesses, especially in terms of moderation tools and access these days, but ultimately a lot of what people want in a social media platform can be found on usenet. An effort to update it for modern sensibilities might actually create something pretty cool.

In fact we'll provide you with a handy list of all of the places you should absolutely avoid. Indexed by interest and type even!

Any of the Sierra "X Quest" games. Space Quest, Police Quest... so many soft locks. I remember Police Quest had a soft lock that would trigger on the first day but wouldn't become apparent until day 3 or 4.

We actually have one of these in Dayton, Nevada. Half hour away from Carson City, hour from Reno, not much to speak of at all in the town really (other than some historical interests) but there's an entire subdivision with a golf course and a small airfield and "hangar homes".

For example, this just showed up over here on kbin.

Unfortunately it's becoming the norm. Some are less obtrusive or take up relatively little space, but every Smart TV I've used in the last year has some un-removable portion of the home screen that displays an ad. So far it's almost entirely limited to TV shows or movies or services or otherwise TV-related things, but it's really not hard to imagine that expanding to other goods and/or services.

Every smart TV is like that now. Every single one has ads of some kind, at least that I've tried. I mean there might be one weird knockoff brand that doesn't but chances are it's got even larger problems, and forget about finding apps for it.

But yeah, I have my TV connected to the internet. One of the things I had plugged in to my old "dumb" TV was a Chromecast, and the Android TV has one built in... but that requires it be on the internet for it to work. It is running Android so you bet your ass I loaded it up with all sorts of sideloaded goodness (Revanced, SmartTube, Retroarch to name a few). I just haven't gotten around to replacing the launcher to get rid of the ads, since it's a bit involved.

Oh, also it didn't originally have ads, that came in an update about a year later. I'd care more if I spent much time on the home screen, but most of the time the TV's just displaying the output of the Roku.

I've taken to calling people out who use the term unironically. Remind them that we're adults and we don't need cutesy euphemisms.

For what it's worth, when I do the response is generally supportive.

It's everywhere, and for no good reason. I've yet to find a Lemmy instance that will work without JavaScript enabled.